Communication Skills for Students with ASD


Presented by: Cathy Kania, M.S.CCC SLP, Martha Myers, SLP, and Lenore Remley, SLP M.Ed., ATP

We have provided you with links to several articles and a PowerPoint below. Please read these articles and review the PowerPoint. We are looking forward to meeting you on February 21st!

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How Students With Autism Learn
By Autism Society
http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_2006_pdf_Article4/

Developing Expressive Communication Skills for Non-verbal Children With Autism
By Susan Stokes
http://www.specialed.us/autism/nonverbal/non11.htm

Creating visual literacy supports for special needs students: Do You See What I Mean?
By Paula Kluth
http://www.autism-mi.org/about_autism/interventions_support/visual.html/title/creating-visual-literacy-supports-for-special-needs-students

Supporting the Literacy Learning of Students with Autism
By Paula Kluth
http://www.paulakluth.com/readings/literacy/supporting-the-literacy-learning-of-students-with-autism/

Making Sense of the Hidden Curriculum
By Brenda Smith Myles
http://www.education.com/reference/article/hidden-curriculum-school-asperger/


Please watch and listen to this presentation on Visual Strategies for the Classroom
http://fdlrsgulfcoast.adobeconnect.com/p7s2iazname/
The presentation is about 22 minutes in length. You'll notice about a 12 second pause at the beginning as it loads. Lenore Remley narrates this presentation.

autism_ribbon.jpgPlease develop visual supports to share on February 21st. Create visual support(s) to use in your classroom for a particular student or for ALL students as a Universal Design for Learning support.
  • Bring your support(s) to the session
  • Or take pictures of the visual supports to share at our face-to-face meeting

Here are some websites that will help you create visual supports:

This website by By Linda Hodgdon, M.Ed., CCC-SLP provides printable picture cards. It also provides more information on the importance of Visual Strategies.
http://www.usevisualstrategies.com/Welcome.aspx

This website provides many examples of visual environments.
http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/ATBasics/Populations/aac/schedules.php

This website provides printable black and white pictures for visual environments.
http://www.dotolearn.com/picturecards/printcards/index.htm